"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too."

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

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"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

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"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

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"With a book he was regardless of time."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever."

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"To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight."

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